Audiphone.



C. M. WILLIAMS.

AUDIPHONE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.I3, 1916.

1 ,%53,656 Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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nnplieation filed September 13, 3.5316. Serial H0. lwfiw.

I"? To all whom it may conceive:

Be it known that I, Cessms M. WILIJAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a. resi dent of Sentizle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Andie phones, of which the following is n full H116, and. exact specification.

My invention relates to ouclipliones and more particularly to that class of eucliphones which are used as em: phones for people who are herci of hearing". The principal objects of my invention are to provide simple and. novel means of transmitting the sound from the receiver in the car without ville necessity of having to holcl the reee wi against the em as is usual. Anoihei' o e; cl; of: my i is to provide on improved 101T. of reoeiv i. cop to which mile-eewhich lead to the ewe may be eeeily ntfneclieil. people "who are hard of hea ing generally very sene tive upon this perigiculer subject anal do not like be hold is large end cumbersome receiver up to their-ear While one is talking iotliein; moreover, requires the use or one hand to hold; the ceceivei' against Elie eer' which oeeiy handicaps line user 'oliysicelly. My device is clesignecl eo provme o conneccion between the receiver and the which at emote out. very non sitcom-ion, i: mostly concealed. cloeliing which. does. nol; 1e

quire holding up to the em. in my ole-vice; the receiver and em; phone proper, well as the batteries, are concealed in no; clotln ing so that no oo-rt of like device enceloting two small tubes which lead to the are ordinarily visible.

In the cli'ewingo 1 is an elevation of my device with ports we away. I a central vericel section of the receiver of my devieel l fencing more poreienlrmly to (she leewings, numeral 1 indiceies on one phone proper of usual construction which is elec trically connected by means of cable 2 to magnets 3 of the receiver. The receiver ineludes a special cap e having raised clonie centrally located thereon. The clome 5 is provided. with a straight face 6 through which two tapered holes which receive tepei'ecl tubular connections *1 Wliicl'i are joined to eouncl tubes 8. Sound. "tubes 8 iced one to eiihei oer and are provided with tips 9 upontheir outer ends. Batteries 10 m electrically connected by 2. cable 11 to one phone which thus completes the circuit oetrween the batteries end recciven The batteries, phone and. receiver one con ceoleci in bile pocliei'e the cloehing the i eei'ei" and. the smell tubes 8 only rise above the coo?) col-lei and. to the eere.

While have shown o particular form of embodiment of my invention, I am aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the art Without nope-Eating from the spirit and scope of the invenfeiom and. l tlierefoce desire n) evoid being; limieed to the exact form shown onci. desceibeol.

Having described. my invention, whet ll claim as new and desire to protect by Lea";- ei s Fotenis, is

A receiver for on eiiiiiphone comprising; n cylindrical eas ng, e fiiaphrogm in the coeing, a. cop having on annular flange engaging over t :3 open end of the casing and holding the diaphra m in position, soul cop having a cent-rally diseased hollow loose on its front face, the of "the boss being flail: and formed with a. pair of openings, the lower end of boss inclining downwardly end merging into the cap, and. em: when fitted into the openings in the hollow boss.

QASSUJS M. VHLLEAMS. 

